The Team
Serge JAMGOTCHIAN
Serge JAMGOTCHIAN
25 years of experience in M&A: Independent firms and Crédit Agricole Group.
Education: IAE Lyon 3 and EM Lyon. Serge has a strong track record of financial transactions and business combinations in industry, industrial services, and specialty retail, both in France and internationally.
Passions: football and music.
serge.jamgotchian@alpavia-partners.com
Romain EHRET
Romain EHRET
15 years of experience in M&A: Crédit Agricole Group, Edmond de Rothschild.
Education: Prépa HEC Ampère, Neoma Business School, Politecnico di Milano.
Romain has led several transactions with financial investors, including capital openings and secondary deals, as well as projects in the industrial sector and in international contexts.
Passions: renovating an old house, hiking, and music.
romain.ehret@alpavia-partners.com
Adrien PEDRON
Adrien PEDRON
15 years of experience in M&A: Transcapital, Crédit Agricole Group.
Education: Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, Institut Agro Montpellier, WSET Diploma.
Adrien has completed several transactions in the agri-food and industrial sectors. He also has a strong knowledge of the Alpine economic environment, where he comes from. A wine expert, Adrien has carried out around twenty deals in the wine industry.
Passions: wine, cycling, cooking, and the mountains.
adrien.pedron@alpavia-partners.com
Our values
INDEPENDENCE AND COMMITMENT
Our independence ensures the absence of conflicts of interest, allowing us to advise our clients with complete objectivity.
As partners, we share our clients’ reality and are fully committed to bringing each transaction to a successful outcome.
TAILOR-MADE ADVISORY SERVICES
We advise business leaders over the long term to carry out transactions that fit the trajectory of their company.
In doing so, we align their development vision with the necessary evolution of their shareholding.
A UNITED AND EXPERIENCED TEAM
We have a combined 50 years of experience in financial institutions, where we have completed more than 120 transactions together in France and internationally.
We work with a network of partners and senior advisors who share the same values.
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Our vision of business transfer is to preserve local expertise and regional roots while opening the way to sustainable and shared growth.
We design transactions that highlight the unique qualities of each project.
Our skills
A focus on SMEs and mid-sized companies
Advisory services for SMEs and mid-sized companies, whose governance is often led by long-standing or family shareholder-managers.
Preparing leaders for a unique and transformative stage: understanding their priorities, clarifying the implications, easing concerns, and removing misunderstandings to guide and validate each step of the process.
Highlighting the company’s business model structure and differentiating strengths—often not formally documented—to make them clear and attractive to investors or buyers.
Expanding the range of possibilities by identifying different types of counterparties, in order to select the transaction that best balances the interests of the company and its shareholders.
A generalist approach with recognized areas of expertise
A general M&A culture focused on SMEs and mid-sized companies, with the agility needed to work across diverse economic sectors.
Our experience has enabled us to build recognized expertise in specific areas such as industry and industrial services, agri-food (from farm to table), specialty retail, and wines & spirits (estates, merchants).
Thanks to our knowledge of the SME–mid-cap landscape and our sector-specific capabilities, we approach each transaction with full consideration of its unique characteristics.
OUR SUPPORT
IN FRANCE AND IN ITALY
From Lyon, with support offices in Northern Italy, we assist our clients in their domestic projects as well as in their cross-border or Europe-wide initiatives.
Our scope
Equity opening
- Exit of minority or majority shareholders
- Family transfer of ownership
- Management equity participation
- Growth financingSortie d’actionnaires minoritaires ou majoritaires
Transfer
- Total or partial transfer of ownership
- Sale of a subsidiary or business unit
External Gowth
- Diversification or consolidation
- Expansion into new territories: markets or geographic areas (France and Europe)